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KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk
While unspecified, the behaviour of Intel processors is to first perform the page table walk, then, if the walk was successful, to atomically update the accessed and dirty bits of walked paging elements. While we are not required to follow this exactly, doing so will allow us to perform the access permissions check after the walk is complete, rather than after each walk step. (the tricky case is SMEP: a zero in any pte's U bit makes the referenced page a supervisor page, so we can't fault on a one bit during the walk itself). Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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